… Amid Rising Regional Tensions.
"Russia has begun to develop a heavy flame-throwing system based on a weapon first tested in the late 1980s following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. That system, known as the TOS-1 Buratino, included a multiple rocket launcher and thermobaric weapon. It is one of a spate of new weapons and arms systems under development in Russia, as regional tensions flare with neighboring Ukraine and the Baltic States.
"We have started the development of a new-generation heavy flame-throwing system under the order of the Defense Ministry. The development, which is currently at its initial stage, should go rather speedily, and we should be able to deliver the new product in a few years," Vladimir Tikhonov, the director general of Russia's Tekhmach corporation, which also built the TOS-1 Buratino, told RIA Novosti, Sputnik News reported.
The TOS-1 had a rotary launch system for unguided missiles and a fire control system. As a thermobaric weapon, it uses heat and pressure to create explosions set off by clouds of gas or particulate. The United States has used these deadly systems in Afghanistan, as they are well suited to attack buried targets, such as those in caves…"
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